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🗓️ 11 September 2024
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0:00.0 | This is a difficult part of the scripture where there's a lot going on as we lead into the coming of Jesus Christ to the Americas, which is going to be preceded by all that death and destruction in 35 chapters 8 and 9 and 10. |
0:18.6 | The reality is this book is written for our day. Sometimes here's what happens |
0:25.1 | in a gospel learning setting. We go through life and we face trials and tribulations and temptations |
0:34.4 | and temptations and adversities and problems. And then we say, okay, I need to go to church, |
0:39.5 | or I need to study my scriptures, or I need to do spiritual things. And it's almost like we |
0:47.2 | have this mindset of, I need to check my problems at the door. Come in and relax for a minute in a scriptural setting or a sacrament meeting |
0:57.5 | setting or even in some cases in a temple setting. And that works, but there's nothing wrong |
1:03.8 | with that. What we're inviting you to do today, however, is the total opposite of that. |
1:10.4 | Just try it. Try an experiment. Try not checking your problems, |
1:16.8 | your temptations, your tribulations, your struggles at the door. Try bringing them with you |
1:23.9 | into this lesson, all the baggage, and put it with you on the table in front of you |
1:30.7 | with the Scriptures. And as we go through the Scriptures, keep a prayer in your heart that |
1:35.4 | the Lord will help you make sense of this baggage, that He'll help you see it from an |
1:41.2 | eternal perspective using principles that you learn on the scripture page |
1:47.6 | as they apply directly to your life and your unique set of challenges and struggles. |
1:53.9 | We've shared earlier in the year this concept that I learned from a dear sister Cheryl |
1:59.2 | Bettenson up in Brigham City years and years ago. |
2:02.5 | This concept that she shared with me that sometimes when she would be reading her scriptures, |
2:07.7 | her mind would wander and she would feel bad and come back to the scripture page saying, |
2:13.6 | oh, I'm sorry, my mind wandered and then start reading again. But this time, with the |
2:18.9 | mindset of what did my mind wander to? What was I so concerned about that pulled my thoughts |
2:25.4 | away from the scripture page? She would bring that problem front and center back into that same |
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